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Occasionally in the past I have found both my computers off when I had left them running and doing stuff.
Today as I was working on one they both suddenly switched off, went dead with no shutting down.
They are in different rooms on different powerpoints. The peripherals stayed on (printer, monitors went to standby). The only connection is that they are both connected to my Billion modem/router which is on an ADSL 512 connection.

They would not switch on again until I had switched them off for a couple of minutes at the powerpoint.

Any ideas? :shrug:

One is an Athlon 1800 running XP the other is a P3 500 running Win 2000.

The only thing that I can think of, and im no electrican, is that maybe there isnt enough juice avaliable for your building to run all of the appliances in your house at once to it just gets cut off. I really have no other suggestions.

The only thing that I can think of, and im no electrican, is that maybe there isnt enough juice avaliable for your building to run all of the appliances in your house at once to it just gets cut off. I really have no other suggestions.

Not likely at all. But as I don't have any better idea to this I'll just shut up..

Un-interuptable Power Supply and these come in a range of sizes to suit ya needs. They have a battery backup so that during blackouts and brownouts ya PC will still have power though in an extended blackout a lot will power down ya PC before the battery runs out.